Southern-style beef curry with peanuts & potatoes. Tender meat in a curry that wasn't as creamy as we might have preferred. Still, it struck a nice balance between being spicy enough to titillate our taste buds and mild enough to keep our digestive systems calm.

Evan & Tate Salisbury Cabernet Merlot. A fair selection of wine is available by the bottle, but there are too few choices by the glass.

One bonus: for the Christmas season, they've been playing David Archuleta's 'Christmas From The Heart' CD. So all you Arch-Angels know where to go now!

The drawbacks: iced & warm water isn't served for free, so customers have to order mineral water. Also, the food seems laden with MSG, since we were thirsty for hours.

Busaba Thai Restaurant,

F15, 1st Floor, Bangsar Shopping Centre, Kuala Lumpur.

Tel: 2093-7708

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tng: ya, bsc is my favorite mall for restaurants now ... and there are still a lot of vacant shop lots, so there's space for more eateries in the future! :D yeah, i normally skip salads, but this one had me finishing every spoonful. not TOO spicy, fortunately! =)j: ya, that seems to be the trend at the chains of thai restaurants at shopping malls. sigh!michelle: heheh, i'll take that as a compliment (though i have no idea what you mean!) :Dlfb: yep, if someone had asked me where my favorite dining hub was at the start of 2010, i'd have said changkat bkt bintang. but now it's definitely bangsar. too bad bangsar village and bsc are not within walking distance of each other though!unka: ya, i love fish maw too! but i only occasionally see it outside of chinese restaurants. this one in the salad was nice and crunchy, but they also serve a fish maw soup that should also be worth tasting :D

lfb: isn't that a two-kilometer walk, at least! and no driver will stop to pick up a hapless hitchhiker hoping to thumb a lift when he realizes (too late) that the distance between the two malls is too far :D

lfb: is foie gras served at any outlet in bsc? i suspect there's none! not at la bodega, the pressroom, WIP, alexis, twentyone, le midi, george & dragon, dancing fish, vineria, the tea republic, vineria, house & co, grand imperial, kuriya, or busaba! oh noooooooooooo! ... oh wait, the ming room has foie gras. how strange that a chinese restaurant rescues the mall from foie-graslessness :Dj: heheh, i never actually notice the uphill/downhill slope on jalan maarof, probably since it's not steep enough to put much pressure on the car. but let's hope the MRT will make stops at both BV and BSC by the time it's completed in 2019 (though by then, will we still be hanging out at BV and BSC? hmmmm) :D

lfb: ooh, maybe i should think of a new nickname then? the Arch-angel Eats Foie Gras? then again, i don't even have an 'old' nickname :Deiling: yep, three new restaurants opened at BSC in just two weeks! and all offering different food, yay! :D heheh, sea bass/siakap is not too bony compared to some other fish =)

lfb: cockles are harder to find than truffles! which proves that they've become a rare and precious delicacy :Dlemongrass: ooh, no, i've never even heard of clamato! the closest i've come to having clam broth would be in spaghetti vongole, heheh :D

lfb: i just did a search for 'eat drink kl' + cockles, and i've only had cockles three or four times since early 2009!!! the word appears very frequently on this blog though, thanks to comment threads :D